They lie in the Kara Sea, close to the bleak coast of Siberia's Taymyr Peninsula, not far east of the Nordenskjold Archipelago.

The Firnley Islands were named by Fridtjof Nansen after Thomas Fearnley?, a Norwegian merchant who was one of the main financiers of the Fram expedition.

The sea surrounding the islands is covered with fast ice in the winter, which is long and bitter, and the climate is exceptionally severe.

The surrounding sea is obstructed by pack ice even in the summer, so that these islands are connected with the mainland for most of the year.

[3] The Firnley Islands were named by Fridtjof Nansen after Thomas Fearnley?, a Norwegian merchant who was one of the main financiers of the Fram expedition.